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The /proc vulnerability

The /proc vulnerability

Posted Jul 20, 2006 9:50 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: The /proc vulnerability by ekj
Parent article: The /proc vulnerability

The latter doesn't work in recent versions of glibc, but a determined attacker could build a modified ld.so that doesn't check noexec.

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efficacy of mounting with noexec

Posted Jul 20, 2006 13:15 UTC (Thu) by sweikart (guest, #4276) [Link]

> The latter doesn't work in recent versions of glibc ...

It worked with ld-2.2.5.so (Red Hat Linux 7.3), but not ld-2.3.3.so (Fedora Core 2).

> ... but a determined attacker could build a modified ld.so that
> doesn't check noexec.

Which can be foiled in a chroot jail by mounting writable filing systems noexec.

-scott

The /proc vulnerability

Posted Jul 22, 2006 16:21 UTC (Sat) by Ross (guest, #4065) [Link]

If an attacker could write to a filesystem with exec permissions, then they wouldn't have to bother with trying to run an existing executable.


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